Translating surfaces under flows by sub-affine-critical powers of Gauss curvature

arXiv2104.13186MaRDI QIDQ6366246FDOQ6366246

Soojung Kim, Beomjun Choi, Kyeongsu Choi

Publication date: 27 April 2021

Abstract: We construct and classify translating surfaces under flows by sub-affine-critical powers of the Gauss curvature. This result reveals all translating surfaces which model Type II singularities of closed solutions to the $alpha$-Gauss curvature flow in $mathbb{R}^3$ for any $alpha>0$. To this end, we show that level sets of a translating surface under the $alpha$-Gauss curvature flow with $alphain(0,frac14)$ converge to a closed shrinking curve to the $fracalpha1-alpha$-curve shortening flow after rescaling, namely the surface is asymptotic to the graph of a homogeneous polynomial. Then, we study the moduli space of translating surfaces asymptotic to the polynomial by using slowly decaying Jacobi fields. Notice that our result is a Liouville theorem for a degenerate Monge-Am`ere equation, $det{D}^{2}u=(1+|Du{|}^2{)}^{2-frac12alpha}$ where $alphain(0,frac14)$.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monge-Ampère equations (35J96) Geometric evolution equations (53E99)

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